Remembrance of Craig Gosling
Craig’s pen and ink style was casual and spontaneous and seemed to ooze extreme confidence in its mark making. It seemed effortless in his hands but as we come to find out pen and ink is not an easy medium to master.
My Working Method
My working method is as follows. While many of the outlines of members of my menagerie are created in pen and ink and scanned in, others are created digitally by juxtaposing outlined ovals and cutting them up and repeating and realigning them along with solid shapes...
Note to a Student
Embrace what you love and learn new skills as your temperament and patience will allow and stop making comparisons because it is often apples to oranges.
My Quest for Creepy Crawlers
Back in the day you could make your own beetle collection with metal molds, liquid latex rubber and a hot plate for young nature lovers like me. Mattel Toys came out with the Thingmaker Creepy Crawlers Bug Maker Kit in 1964. You can still find these kits on EBAY and...
Creating Nature Textures with Coffee Stain
When I was in graduate school many years ago I was introduced a coffee stain technique developed by my professor Gerald P Hodge.